Bunnies...

Hope you had a merry Christmas and wonderful start to 2014!

So we welcomed a new pet into the family..a little bunny who as been given the weighty title of George Louis Alexander Gandalf the Grey. A big name for a little bunny!

He is fitting in well and already showing some of the signs he is "bonding" to us, according to our Googe searching. Ie. he is trying to eat Gorgeous Girls clothes and cleaning himself whilst we are near. The farmers daughter in me is horrified we have a rabbit, but he is cute and growing on me.

And coincidentally I pulled out a paper piecing project that I started on our holiday after Christmas, and what should I see....

(and would you believe it? I've just seen,in the photo, the needle I have turned our lounge upside down looking for!)

The fabric I am using is from a fabric club I signed up to through The Home Patch.

Hope you are having a good week!

Summer is in the air...

Hi all! Isn't this a crazy time of the year?

I've been busy with end of the year school and sport things and of course getting ready for Christmas.

The only sewing I've done is an apron for a part of the Secret Santa swap my online quilting group runs.

It is from the same pattern as I made for this apron here

We have also had a birthday for our littlest. One Jay from Ninjago cake as requested...

Looking forward to school finishing and everything winding down for the year and looking forward to hanging out with the kids. Think I better get in a few games of Basketball with my 9 year old before he gets too good!

Have a great week!

Winner and creativity of a different kind...

Well, I blinked and a month went past...scary!!

To start off with, the winner of the purple fabrics are Wendy. Congrats! I hope to get some more giveaways going soon.

Unfortunatley, I haven't had much time to sew lately but I thought I would show you some of the arty stuff my kids have come home with.

1) A cute clay fish 2) A portrait of a boogie boarder...don't you love his expression!

In an attempt to broaden my horizons , I've recently been going to a digital photography course. All those buttons on my camera actually have uses...who'd have thought it! ;-)

This is one photo I took of the sunsets over my town...they've been beautiful lately.

Hope you've had a good week!

Giveaway!!

To celebrate my 157th post...smile...I am giving away some things I have found buried in my craft room.

To begin with, here are a pile of decent sized fabric pieces in purple..most would be nearly a fat quarter...

To enter, please make a comment.

Now back to the piles...

Have a good week!

Finish-a-Long - 4th Quarter

After a momentous finish of ONE thing from my list from last quarter - London Calling- here I go again...here's my list with no real expectation I will finish anything in the busiest part of the year!

1. One baby quilt to be quilted and bound.

2.My travelling circle bee quilt needs borders, quilting and to be bound.

3.Another baby quilt that needs quilting and to be bound.

4.These blocks need to be joined together in some fashion and then made into a quilt.

5.And these blocks too..

That's a hilariously long list but wanted to be positive! :-)

Hope you are having a good week!

2013 Finish-A-Long Q3 - A Finish!

Well, I actually got one of the things on my list finished. Woo hoo!
This top...

Is now quilted and bound!!

Sorry about the quality of the photo but I wanted to make the deadline! I will take better pictures in sunlight tomorrow.

I also wanted to show you a couple of things that made me smile in the last couple of weeks. I got this artwork painted for Gorgeous Girl for her birthday....

I sent the artist photos of our girl and her two furry friends and she incorporated them into the painting...

And a couple of months ago on the Sweetwater Blog they asked for addresses to incorporate into their new line of fabric, Road 15. I left mine in the comments and was kind of tickled to see my address on fabric! I won't point it out but believe me, it's there!

Now I will have to make a quilt with a big arrow pointing to my address! :-)

Hope you are having a good week!

Spring, birthdays, crochet...

Wow, spring has hit with a vengeance! Between sniffing and rubbing my eyes, I've enjoyed watching the flowers bloom.

I pretty much finished my first ever crocheted blanket...if you don't look at all the starts and ends I need to weave in!.....

It's made from a merino/alpaca wool..so heavy and warm! (just in time for summer...typical!)

And I've been trying my hand at jam making with some surplus strawberries. Any hints on getting it to set more and not have the fruit float to the top??

The smell of it cooking was divine...worth all the mess!

We've also had another birthday in our family and so here's Gorgeous Girl's cake...

It's Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory in a ball pit (a famous episode for the those who don't watch the show!) We managed to survive having eight 12/13 year olds for a sleepover....thank goodness!

Have a great week!